WASHINGTON -- Northrop Grumman Systems has been awarded a $3.6 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Large Aircraft Infrared Counter Measures (LAIRCM) equipment and support. This contract provides for LAIRCM line replaceable units, support equipment, logistics support related activities, systems and sustaining engineering, program management, and other efforts necessary supporting efforts specified in each task/delivery order.

Work will be performed in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and is expected to be completed by December 2025. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8638-19-D-0001).

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin of Orlando, Fla., a $10.2-million hybrid (cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price) Foreign Military Sales contract (W52P1J-19-D-0006) for Qatar. The contract provides for support services for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor on board Qatar's AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. One bid was solicited with one bid received.

The contracted work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2024.

At the time of the award, the full $10.2 million in Fiscal Year 2019 Foreign Military Sales funds was obligated. The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., is the contracting activity.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Boeing delivered the final Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft modernized with avionics and a digital cockpit to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Manching, Germany. This delivery is the final of 14 and ensures NATO AWACS compliance with current and future air traffic control and navigation requirements.

Upgrades include five full-color digital displays in each aircraft, replacing 1970’s-era dials and provides crewmembers with customizable engine, navigation and radar data. These digital capabilities also allow NATO to consolidate crew responsibilities.

"The Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) modernization project enables the NATO E-3A fleet to meet current and foreseen European air traffic management requirements," said Brig. Gen. Mike Hain, general manager, NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Agency.

The first modernized NATO AWACS plane was modified at Boeing facilities in Seattle and delivered to NATO in November 2016. The remaining 13 aircraft underwent modernization work in Manching, Germany.

NATO’s AWACS fleet is the alliance’s first integrated, multinational flying unit, providing rapid deployment, airborne surveillance and command and control for NATO operations.

Source:
Boeing
Source Date: December 18, 2018
Posted: 12/18/2018

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